Cherry Tree sold to Youngs

[malumbu]

Oh dear. For my first twenty years in London, Youngs pubs were always a good port of call. Morpeth, Royal Oak Westminster, The Clock, Dulwich Woodhouse, The Buck in Petty France. Then it all went wrong on the merger with Charles Wells, pub quality down, beer quality down, ambience down, prices up. Easy to say 'modern life is rubbish' but they had a nice niche, and pubs well run by long term managers and well trained attentive staff. No longer.